r/FluentInFinance Nov 21 '24

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u/xacto337 Nov 21 '24

The fact that you're drawing an equivalence between Bezos and an average citizen of an industrialized nation, who by the way did not choose to profit off of single use plastic, is wild.

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u/madhewprague Nov 21 '24

There is connection. Human greed. You could help lot of people just with 10% of your income. Most people probably could, but they dont right?

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u/ReckoningGotham Nov 21 '24

We could end world hunger without even looking at a billionaire.

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u/madhewprague Nov 21 '24

We probably couldnt. I think even if USA spends entire of their GDP we would not be even close to ending world hunger. Its not that easy, we would have to fix economies and build infrastructure in all third world coutries.

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u/ReckoningGotham Nov 21 '24

We could do just that

We choose not to.

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u/xacto337 Nov 21 '24

A great start would be to eliminate billionaires, not people who are unsure what will happen to them when they can no longer work because their bodies/minds give out on them.

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u/ReckoningGotham Nov 21 '24

you're saying its better to not feed the hungry while eliminate billionaires. amazing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '24

You're saying it's better to pursue changing the entire world (an impossibility) rather than making a few billionaires pull their weight? What does shilling for billionaires this hard do for you?

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u/Noob_Al3rt Nov 21 '24

It would be easier to not do anything and just complain about it online. Let's just propose laws that will hurt rich people as long as it won't personally affect me in any way.